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Maybe you DON'T Need a Survival Food Pantry
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- Опубликовано: 13 авг 2024
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Some of us see amazing survival food pantry ideas and start to think we need incredible indoor food storage. Yet perhaps we're approaching this wrong. Perhaps there is a simpler method. If you can't afford an epic pantry, and have seen too many survival food hacks that just won't work for you, perhaps try our method of keeping food in the ground - and growing storable calories that keep through the year, wherever we have space to store them.
Storable crops include potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkins. You don't even need a root cellar for these! Sure, there's nothing wrong with survival canning or studying pantry hacks, but you might be able to store the bulk of your calories without doing anything particularly complicated. We're storing potatoes, storing sweet potatoes, and storing pumpkins right in the house, at room temperature, and eating them throughout the year. Meanwhile, in the garden, we eat in season. Though we do some canning, it is only a tiny fraction of the calories we eat. Here are some survival food storage hacks you might consider before you spend money on a new pantry!
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Dear David, I loved my home canned food supply, especially meat, but my family had hard times and it's gone... but in the meantime, my food forest is maturing and my kitchen garden is fabulous. I love your knowledge, your personality. You bring comfort during a time of information overload of worrisome happenings. Your community is full of knowledgeable members. I am grateful.
So I want to store my potatoes on my porch or in my basement and im very scared the critters will get them. Tips???
Not sure why it bugs me that the handle on your cart is on the wrong side. 🙈
I feel it's always good to have a backup pantry just in case you have a bad growing year.
The farther north you go, the more important a large pantry is.
Realized that this year, lost everything to a tornado and quarter size hail.
We lost 3/4 of our garden to grasshoppers thus year.
Chapulines (or at least fish/poultry food), but don't eat the toxic ones like lubbers. @@rubynelson7709
We do need a pantry. Incase sickness or injuries dwells in the home.
Before my husband retired I saved a lot of money by having a pantry. The thing is you have to *USE* those foods. The most expensive food in the world is the food that nobody wants to eat. Because they will NOT eat it they will just push it around the plate.
You know how sometimes you are too busy or too tired to cook? Instead of ordering a delivery pizza I simply went to the pantry and opened some chili. Or spagetti. Or beef and Knorr sides. AND I had a garden as well, and I preserved what we did not eat fresh
Yep, Exactly. I learned that lesson when I lost my job due to a health problem. Half my pantry was foods I ate regularly, half was what I thought of at the time as long term survival foods. Until I had to live off it... Then I learned that if you don't eat it regularly, it doesn't do you any good. You won`t eat it anyway. When was the last time you just ate a pot of beans? No meat, rice, salt, stock, seasoning, nothing... just beans? You eat that regularly? Maybe you just eat a pot of rice? How `bout boiled wheat? Yummy, am I right? Stock up on what you eat, and make sure to rotate your food stuffs... I.e. You actually need to live on it, on a regular basis. It needs to be a part of your regular diet, or the whole pantry thing wont work.
You like Chili? Great, can a bunch of Chili. Stew, Pot Roast, Pork chops, Veggies like Potatoes and Carrots, Salsa, Scrambled eggs, maybe even cheese or butter. Yes you can Can both cheese and butter if you know how to do it... Neither is hard. Heck, you can Can spices... Little things liked canned dried garlic and dried onions, to Cinnamon, Nutmeg, and All Spice(great general spice flavor). Marjoram is a great general herb to replace flavor wise Things Like (Oregano, Thyme, Basil, etc...).
Random observations as someone who works in a grocery store. Our Deli roast beef costs 16.99 a pound. Our assorted pot roast costs anywhere from 5.99 per lb, to 10.99 a lb, Depending on type. Pork roasts cost from 1.99 a pound to 3.99 a pound. Even at today's super inflated prices...
In other words, you can save a tremendous amount of money by shopping smart, and canning it.
@@anonymouse2675 I learned that lesson after I fed several meals to the pets. Heck, I didn't want to eat it either. THEN, after my husband retired and started helping in the kitchen, he had to learn it as well because some foods are so darned CHEAP!!!!!! I did, eventually, learn how to cook black beans and we enjoy them now. I simmer them with salt and add it to ground beef and taco seasoning. DH LIKES it as the filling for soft shell tacos!
@@kansasterri5977 Hey, I learned how to finally enjoy things like Spinach and Kale! I came up with a generic soup recipe. Basically its kinda like either a Minestrone or a vegetable beef and barley only I use a random meat in it, usually chicken as the base. You can use beef or pork as well. Start with onions, carrots, celery and a stock. Add whatever other random veggies that happen to be over growing your garden. For me that tends to be zucchini and green beans, but it works with pretty much anything. I like to throw in some chopped potatoes and a bit of barley and some beans, though if you do add either beans or barley add them towards the beginning. What makes the whole thing work though is some diced tomatoes. As near as I can tell, its the acidity that pulls all the other flavors together. I usually just use two to three, any more and it just ends up being tomato soup, or gross... About halfway through, add some random small pasta, and near the end chop up some leafy greens and throw those in as well. This is the point I season it and add salt. Gives it time to simmer.
Very important note: Use a small amount of each ingredient, They add up fast and you are adding a lot so you might end up eating this for DAYS if you overdo it... I don't typically use measurements. It`s either one, two or three, or its A handful or two.
The reason I like this "recipe" is that it uses stuff from the garden AND stuff from the pantry. Also its cheap, and makes the food last a long time. That and you can change it on the fly.
@@anonymouse2675 I will try it. I SHOULD eat more kale because it is "good for me", but I do not really enjoy it. But I do eat minestroni so if I just add tomatos and kale..... Yup I will try it
Right there with you brother I’m all about “eating with the seasons” and growing proper storage crops!!
Agreed!
Oh, but doesn't a good peach cobbler hot out of the oven sound good on those cold winter days?? 😊 I don't bake when it's 96° outside. I preserve some things that don't keep but give us joy in the winter months.
One is none and two is one and 3 is better. What if your garden fails? What if you have a 5 years drought (Like I was used to in Australia) It's always better to have stores that you never need, than to need them and not have them.
"Until one day they spontaneously rot, and leave a big spot in your wood floor." Entirely speculative, of course. 😂❤
In my case the flies were the first clue. 😔
While I admire, appreciate and greatly respect what you said and do; I have to tell you, after the hurricane, being without power for several weeks left many neighbors without a lot of stuff. I shared powdered milk, freeze dried foods of all kinds and paper products (those again during covid shortage). So while it is only a small percentage chance, it is still a very real possibility. As a survivalist I sleep on a bag of peas. ;) but I do have my food forest for seasonal eating. Thanks for all you do!
I have a 25 lb bag of sprouting lentils in a freezer, other beans, lots of rice, grits, oatmeal, creamy wheat, potato flakes, powdered milk & butter, a half gallon of olive and coconut oil, tuna, salmon and sardines, lots of fruit trees and a garden always growing in Louisiana and several things growing indoors in winter like tomatoes, ground cherries, herbs and purslane. Plus I have enough solar to run my freezer, fridge, rice cookers, fans and a window ac during the day and while I sleep if another hurricane comes. My sister says this is "crazy" but I can`t go to a hotel when the power fails like she does.
I think I view food stores as a buffer between the very high likelihood of crop failure, or the inability to raise a garden due to circumstances beyond your control, and or a toxic environment.
Thank you for bringing common sense back to food storage.
I may never need my pantry, but I rotate everything and share with others. Anything unopened and packaged commercially can be taken to the local food bank. Sometimes they will also take home-grown winter squash. Other things I might share with friends and family. Nothing goes to waste.
I did a minor rant video about the pretty pantry syndrome a while back. The pretty pantry armchair warriors chased me with their pretty pitchforks. We have a basement that stays at about 7(c) whether it’s plus or minus 30 outside. Taking after you I’ve gone a bit crazy with pumpkins this year.
I do some canning because stuff won't fit in my small freezer, dry other stuff.....mostly to not waste anything. I just gave my neighbor my last 3 pumpkins to feed to her chickens because they were going bad. I get gifted eggs once in awhile in return.
Found it. Subscribed. Ready to try some Latvian recipes
I’ve been pleasantly surprised how versatile my seminole pumpkins have been in the kitchen. They’re not just for pumpkin pie and pumpkin muffins! I use them in place of sweet potatoes or butternut squash in tons of dinner recipes too!
I finally broke down and bought a electric canner....sooo happy I did.
Whatever gets 'er done.
''It's electric'' 🕺💃
I love mine ! So much bought another one !Have a lot of fun with it .
@@NoNORADon911 woogie woogie woogie
@davidthegood I wanted to give you an update first year gardener I successfully grew tomatoes in the Gainesville/ Ocala area shade cloth was probably the only reason it was successful
i am also disorganized... however the pantry becomes a LOT more important when you live in a colder climate- whether thats canned, dehydrated, or food that stores well.
and of course if you have less garden space you have to choose what to grow. in my case i mostly grow the things that tend to be expensive at the store....
by the way, pumkins get some hecka distance in a trebuchet! a friend has some and has hurled an assortment of items...
Your wife/ family must constantly have sore sides! Your sense of humour is so appreciated.
In the event you are ever in central Illinois in fall. The "pumpkin capital of the world" there are punkin chukin competitions. People go nuts with mechanical devices to loft pumpkins thousands of feet.👍🏼🎃😊
I think your advice is great for anyone with a long growing season.
Mine is short. June to September. Very few things survive and thrive outside this without a considerable amount of effort and help.
I think a combination is best. At least that’s what I’m doing, and it’s worked so far 😊
I recommend the book Landrace Gardening by Joseph Lofthouse (which I learned about from David the Good). He has a ridiculously short growing season yet manages to grow things that most people wouldn't even try in his climate. Where I live, I have a nice, long growing season, but I still found the concepts in the book highly inspirational.
Close to planting time in nw Nevada desert. I love to can & it gets eaten or gifted 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
Me too. Trying to take advantage of microclimates....
If you lose your job, it can potentially take years to get a new one. I've heard countless stories of folks living off of food storage when out of work. When my husband lost a good job due to downsizing, it took three years for him to find a new job. Sadly, we're also too disorganized for a large food storage, so we ended up on food stamps. It's probably the main reason that I find your methods so interesting.
Lol on the pumpkin catapult! I look forward to seeing it! XD
Hubby has been hospitalized several times in the last twelve years. I had food storage before we were married. It came in handy. Plus, his job is weather dependent. Our lights just came on a little over an hour ago from Beryl. He's not working lol
Our storage is low on some things but we had a good corn and purple Hull pea year so we have a lot of those at the moment. None of the squash in our family did well this year. Nobody planted green beans and now I realize I don't have very many left from the last time I canned them a few years ago.
I can a lot of something and then just grow to eat fresh for the next year and then grow enough to can again. None of our tomatoes did well enough to can, nor did the peppers.
I'm going to have to buy them if I don't have a good Fall crop. I was hoping to can Rotel tomatoes this year as I've run out and have been buying them.
I'm for fresh eating and a pantry, too!
Here in zone 3 with only 90 days frost free, we also grow pumpkins and winter squash and Irish potatoes for cold storage. (in my case an unheated basement) I've had winter squash last till July. No sweet potatoes or yams here, unfortunately. But the chickens also appreciate the squash or cooked potatoes.
Don't store potatoes in basement with no or little ventilation.. It create toxic gas many people died
I planted around 100 tomato plants this spring to see if I could can around 15 gallons of tomatoes for soups and sauces to last til next year’s tomatoes come in, and now I’m frantically trying to process around 60-70 lbs of tomatoes per week. I may have been a little over-zealous.
Living in Zone 7b (barely) I have been pleasantly surprised to discover that I can still have harvestable outdoor food almost 365 with careful planning and care, even with +4-5 months of fairly regular freezing temperatures at night. This last winter was mild here, and I had an abundance of root veggies, greens, and broccoli growing through the winter. Even managed to shelter most of them alive through the 4 degree cold snap we had in January under piles of leaves and tarps.
I never have to water, weed, or worry about insects on my winter veggies, trying to not let them freeze to death is pretty much the only garden chore.
I made tomato powder after I made all my canning recipes and got tired of canning. It rehydrated beautifully. Homemade ketchup is fantastic if you're still looking for ideas.
Zone 6 here. I grow about 250 lb. of potatoes / year. I grow winter squash as well. Illini white squash stores about 6 months, butternut lasts a good year. I grow way more than my family can eat, but the chickens sure enjoy them in January. I also ferment the worlds best sour dill pickle and some wonderfull saurekraut. My diet would not be complete without pickled beets. I do love the squash and potatoes that don't require a lot of work for storage! I'm going to try sweet potatoes here next year, I love e'm and they sure do store well. Wish me luck here in the north.
Good luck!
Everyone should have some sort of stockpile of all sorts of food and staples.
Yes, I agree
Mostly I can because I like to can. Tomatoes become sauce, salsa, and pasta sauce. Green beans get canned because I don't like them frozen. I really wish I had a root cellar for potatoes, sweet potatoes and other root veggies, but rocks and high water levels are a "no go" for a root cellar here. We can have 6 chicken (I have 9) but no other livestock, so we purchase a steer every year. I'm not a prepper and don't have a food forest. Yes, I wish I had more than a big yard, but I do what I can with what I have. We just purchased a high tunnel and got it through zoning, so I will be able to push my garden out to about 9 to 10 months of the year here in zone 7. Fresh is best!! God bless y'all and keep growing.
Have you considered rabbits? Most HOA’s and municipalities consider them to be “pets”. Plus they are quiet and take up very little square footage. In addition, they are very prolific and are delicious & versatile.
Pumpkin envy lol. Great video!! Almost like taking the bricks off the shoulders and saying "Hey, let's grow lots of food to eat now."
Thank you David. Ave Maria!
This right here has been a big shift over the past few weeks as I’m really figuring out what my garden wants for me. Seeing my plants as natural storage and understanding that patience is a virtue when it comes to harvesting. You really got it figured out 🤙
Absolutely -- those that have those pantries don't USE half that food on a regular basis. Somewhere in the middle ... have a stock but use it. Those that bought all the beans during the pan-demic didn't even know how to eat it
I've been LEARNING how to grow food that will last and how to store it. I do lots of experiments and sometimes end up with a 'stain on the porch floor' :)
Thank you for your wonderful video!!!
We are getting jujubes this year from both trees .. one of those fruits that will preserve itself, right there on the tree (although with our late season weather I should probably pick them and bring them in to dry!)
Ok, the chipmunk asking questions and the trebuchet got me. 😂😂😂
Yes lol pumpkin trebuchet was the highlight of my day. Hilarious. Brother David is a genius.
Growing Seminole pumpkins for the first time. My coworker gave me one he found growing in his back yard last year and I saved the seeds. I think I've harvested 12 since late May, and they're still going. Too bad my hubby doesn't like them.
Roast and make pumpkin pancakes. :) or pumpkin bread.
God bless you, David , and your family
Thank you, you too.
Last year, the wild mint took over the newly broken ground and then spread everywhere! Mounds of it were ripped out and piled to compost. I would say mint is diabolical, but the compost, which would NEVER be introduced into the gardens, is growing an amazing pumpkin crop right in place. Thank you for the great advice! -Mrs. Bob
After a year or two of setbacks, it can get discouraging. And now, with two yearling Labrador puppies and no serious garden fencing, nothing much survived. So I turned to growing succulents on tables. Yes, not very useful survival crops, but maybe I can make money off yuppies with them in a pinch. 😂 But papaya suddenly grow out of a trampled patch of ground and bananas still go strong, so I am reminded all is not lost. Once I put the fencing in place, I may be able to grow food properly again and now I have a community to join!
...after the fountain." Thanks for the lovely sight!
Freakin Awesome! Pumpkins are the bomb!
HalleluYAH!! So glad someone asked this question!!!
My most important strategy for food is to grow crazy amount of potatoes, and some other roots as well (depending on what happens to be successful). I have a great root cellar and the tubers etc store there without any special packing efforts. I just throw them in plastic tubs or something, and they ll keep perfectly well till the spring time. In may n june i ll eat more rice n beans n anything left infreezer... since the garden will start yeilding basically in the beginning of july. I dont do canning, but i like to do a little bit some fermenting and fridge pickles. Keep it easy 👍
Just started to learn how to can about a year or so ago. Only got a small terraced house with no cellar so shelf space is scarce. I just do whatever fits on the one shelf I currently have. Still got a few jars of tomato sauce from last year, which a gold dust now, as there won't be any homegrown tomatoes this year the way the British weather is going. Got plenty of first early potatoes to last until the main crop is ready just in a box under the stairs. I only feed two ppl so there's no need for huge amounts of canned goods. It's just nice having some , looking at it from time to time and pat myself on the shoulder having made them.
Oh there's also a cupboard shelf in the kitchen full of dried beans and pulses bought during the pandemic. But they're not going anywhere soon.
Aa for growing sweet potatoes...I tried to grow some this year first time but again the weather threw a spanner in the works. Maybe better luck ànd planning next year.
I have grown pumpkins but discovered I didn’t really like them so after eating about 4 and giving others away, and the last few rotting in storage I have stopped growing them, so also remember to grow what you will like to eat😊
I respect your personal choice wat to eat and not but there is no such thing that you don't like pumpkin it just a specific recipe or way you prepare.. Pumpkins and squashes are really essential for modern days as they are very low in calories.. We use pumpkins to thicken soups, curries also make tons of recipes
Pumpkins get better and better until they rot and…….. so true. Made me LOL. You’re great.
Ive wanted a catapult for 40 years😍😍😍😍🤘🎉🎉🎉oh please yes please!!!
Love my pumpkins! Ferments are good too- so easy to do and extends the season.
I have a very small survival pantry in a box, then I started a part of my veggie patch as a sweet potato survival patch, I am busy with a second survival patch, for perennial veggies.
I used to can tomato's but found that ziplock bagging and freezing them works just as well. Also I take tomato's peppers and onion and freeze them as well. Those are used for chili which we love and make through the winter. Garlic gets dehydrated as well as onions and used for cooking all year. Meat is probably the only thing I can anymore especially venison. It is delicious.
I love all David The Good videos!
I would love if you shared specifically how you eat your pumpkins as part of your dinner, really a lot of your staples like turnips and daikons as well! Inspiration would be great! I love pumpkin custard, pancakes, and of course pie.
In the Post-Apocalyptic world, the most important survival skill, is to become an adventurous cook, and I think you know what I mean.
Millipede soufflé in a chipmunk lard and smilax reduction.
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The vegans are probably cleaner meat although less protein overall
@@Dirt-Fermer we will all shop for our meat in the whole foods parking lot.
@@Dirt-Fermer😂😂😂
Here's a unique storage option for late summer when you don't have cool storage: under the sinks with venting. Air conditioning keeps our potatoes cool until fall temps allow storage in our garage. I save shallow pans so I can easily slide them in and out when needed; removing the vent then replacing it.
Raising picky food eaters, intentionally or passively, is a great disservice to your children. Thankfully, my dad's name was, Critter. Nuff said. 😁
My Halloween pumpkins & those I rescue from others, sit on my tile floor or on a cast iron kettle in a northern foyer. They usually last in that cooler space until May/June. Then get prepared for cooking & compost before going into the freezer primarily for my dog's food.
I like the thought of sharing a pumpkin....food for today ,.. seeds of hope for tomorrow
I live in Canada. Growing season is April to end of Sept. I can. I freeze. I freeze dry. When its shitty outside, I don't have to drive 30 minutes to a grocery store. When the power goes out (and it does fairly often), I have a nice pantry. Not huge. That 6 month to 1 year food supply is pretty darn nice. Also get yourself a generator. So yes, a well stocked pantry is a must here. Florida? Lovely sub tropical growing season. Hoop house for your tomatoes was a great idea.
Amen on pumpkins! I grow sugar pie pumpkins and keep them on a braid rug under the kitchen table until they're fully cured. Then I steam bake, puree and dehydrate them. My favorite use is in homemade bread.
I think there is a hard way to farm and an easy way. Thank you so much for showing the easier way. I think fermenting food is a good thing to do because it seems quite easy and is suppose to be very healthy.
Lovely idea for climates that are mild all year. Try that in MN where winter is often almost 9 months long. There's a reason homemakers put produce in bottles.
I think this is a natural progression. I started home food preservation with strawberry jam in an urban apartment in 2006. There wasn't room to either grow or store food like this. But I inched my way along the home-ownership-larger-garden-seasonal-eating spectrum until I now I have a garden where I can grow fresh food most months of the year and then have a pantry as well. It took about 20 years to have access to land / storage space/ etc. Do what you can.
We are the same. I do can some things but we eat seasonally so that we always have something growing. No livestock, but we have enough vegetables year round and enough fruits from April through November. I grow our own seeds, and starting to get our nits too.
I buy our most of our grains, dried beans, a little meat, and dairy.
We also utilize a large indoor hydroponica garden
Wow.. you little white dog looks very similar to my little white dog.
I'm not a huge pumpkin fan but some of the winter squashes are right up my alley.
Squash Vine Borers got even my Seminole pumpkins this year. I have pumpkin envy for sure.
Life goals
Thanks for a great video.
Have friends that built a trebuchet. They grow their own pumpkins and then have a pumpkin chucking party every year.
This looks good for your area, mine is much colder area and winters are cold and wet with a short growing season. This year we have had a cold wet summer and cabbage has been the only veg that is liking it. I need to have some form of pantry.
I learned about Seminole pumpkins from watching your videos about 3 years ago.They grow great in zone 11A. Pretty much year around.Thanks for the information!
Do you think they would grow well in NW Arizona 8b with 110 degrees in July?
@@WildOrchardOasisFarm Give them a try. If they don't work in the intense heat; try them in a different season.
@@WildOrchardOasisFarm David lives in 8b and his grow abundantly. Our temps get that high sometimes, but most of July our heat index is over 110.
I’m with you! Year round gardening, storage is in the ground! But I live in 8b.
I do preserve in a limited way.
A prudent man sees trouble coming and makes provision. Proverbs ❤ iIt doesn’t outline the type of provision so I guess that’s where leeway comes in 🎉
The book of Proverbs is marvelously practical.
Prudence goes both ways, " for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
Thank you for keeping it real with common....... sense. In Joy
Right you are! Perhaps canning (preserving) is more for the Europeans. Our growing seasons are shorter I think (not the hot south). Of course, if I had the space I could also grow pumpkins, now with tinier space I focus on tomatoes mostly to avoid costs in Winter, they'll be 5 euros for 4x in December I think. It'a a wonderful feeling to NOT have to buy greens all spring/summer long because you have your own. We'll do the second potato planting soon now. See how far we can stretch the total. Onions were awful this year. Half of garlic disappeared.. live learn. Thanks David
Yes, for sure!
One good hurricane here in Florida and my garden and trees are gone. 🌩🌀😢
The weather in Houston this year is crazy. We had a ton of rain and no sun and the a derecho. It wiped out everything except my peppers. Just replanted beans and we had the hurricane.
That is why I can, when I can!
Here in New England, we have a short growing season so we need to preserve the garden for winter. Love my electric canner.
Pumpkins and staple root crops are real winners; Chayote also!
I was intrigued listening to this... but living in the far north, where we have hard freezes from October to April, sometimes May... our life is a little different. However we do eat in season and winter squash (including pumpkins) are fabulous, healthy, tasty sustenance and easy to store (indoors) - . And you're right we don't need ALL our food stored away - there's still gardening and foraging...
Thanks for keeping it real! Finally! Someone told it how it is! LOVE!
That’s a good looking lime buggy. 😉
Love your pumpkin. Never heard the type you plant, will research that one. TY. It's all relative to what area you're in.
Wow
I know pumpkin is healthy
Your skin must be a nice shade of orange and your eyesight terrific
But honestly I understand you using your garden as your pantry supporting not only your selves but the animals etc which also provide for you
It’s all part of being self-sufficient and prepared into able to do it
Many of us cannot manage a food supply similarly because of where we live
So, we have to default to the traditional pantry
Short term and long term
Peace ✌️🇺🇸
Good thoughts!
I don’t think we can do Seminole pumpkins up here in zone 3a ( Canada) but I’m growing a “ton” of winter squash this year so we’ll see how that goes. Thanks for the inspiration and alternate perspective. I live in a rural town but most people here grow grass and spend their summers cutting it, rather than food for their tables… Good Groceries! that seems strange to me. 😂
Wow that extended growing season would be awesome! We've only hot 4 months frost/ freeze free.
Tunnels
Got to attend a Pumpkin Chunkin event in NH back it 2008. It was quite a sight to see those pumpkins being hurled up to 1/4 mile or more.
Umm, Can I hear from Racheal? How do you cook all of these pumpkins where you don't feel like you are making pumpkin pie type foods? It's great to know how to grow and store them...But, most of the folks I know, only drag out those cans to make a pie for the holidays. We LOVE butternut squash...🤔 so do crows! Those I know what to do with..But, pumpkins? Do they have tastes like-X for each variety? Thanks.
Rachel has a video on how she cooks their pumpkins.
I love pumpkin and squash bisque plain, and I also make the bisque with black pepper, rosemary, thyme and cod.
this is our approach now too!
Pumpkin makes delicious ice cream 🎉
When my inlaws died, we had to throw out thousands of pounds of stored staples. Instead, I buy and rotate through staples like whole grains and legumes. We don't use many canned things, but we try to eat what we can grow in season. Practical minimalism is a good thing to do. Learning to eat this way allows me to live in a tiny house with enough staples for a year plus #25 and bring in the fresh stuff as needed. We don't eat animal stuff, so we don't need freezers and fridges to keep them from spoiling. I grow daikons for cover crops; what do you do with them. I can't eat too many pumpkins and sweet potatoes, because they turn me into an oopmaloompa. but I do grow potatoes and pinto beans.
I was raised to trust in the Lord and work hard, I don't doubt my faith.
He always takes care of us. No huge storage in my pantry
I’m a minute in and I already know what your going to say ☀️
Miss Cleo???
Beautiful garden with a beautiful statue! It'd be nice to see mushrooms too (gourmet haha.)
I am not great at growing them, but we do forage for chanterelles.
I eat seasonal. Use daily & process/storage of what I grow & barter. Forage is a great way to save $$. Season extension is a big thing for my sustainable diet. 😊
Two years of any one crop stored in case of crop failure an old lady told me. But she was grew up in central Canada..
That is wise. The further north you go, the more you must rely on storage. Or hunting.
I actually believe you when you said you've been hit with a pumpkin😂
Right! Live storage, then dehydration.
Pumpkin catapult is a fab idea.......😊
Zone 8b in the PNW is very different than your zone 8b. I like your approach to storing food for those who live in a place where it's possible. Up here, my delicata squash is still sitting pretty from last year. 👍🏻
I think? Both Wats has value! Also? I live IN Canada. Things Freeze Up. Growing Season is Short. I don't have Tropical plants, trees, flowers and veg! So canning or drying and root cellaring IS Important.
Agreed my garden is my survival pantry especially the greenhouse
I do love those crops that preserve themselves, like pumkins and sweet potato! For the cassava, we usually let them stay on the ground and dig them when we want to eat cassava (every other day, here in south american winter 😂)
I love your videos man al the way from south africa. You inspire me
Currently working thru my pre apocalypse pantry now, peanut powder added to my fresh garden smoothies, dehydrated onion added to my fresh vegetable soup, my 60 jars of various home jarred jellies and syrups added to plain yogurt, etc. i may have to ...gasp...sell some of my unopened Ball jar cases as well
I enjoy a bit of canned loquats in the wi ters following a year with an abundamce of loquats. Better than canned peaches because they stay firmer. I always can tomatoes because I tend to plant too many and used to buy canned tomatoes before growing my own. This year I ran out of my canned green beans which zi also enjoy in the winter. I'm the only one here that likes pumpkins various ways. My favorite is roasted along with roasted meat but everyone else wants potatoes...
Next year, I need to plant more potatoes. I'd plant another rou d now but I haven't got sprouting potatoes and there aren't any seed potatoes available now.
I"m in WI so I put up quite a bit. Short growing seasons means knowing to put up. But right now its lovely eating fresh.